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iiiister—tinaccom pulled by that something vt•hic'z 0 , , the fourth day of the conflict, made manifest tt.e impotence of Jacobin;Am when left to itself, even in its-supposed emporium. Many events have concurred to furnish a pretty exact guess at the Jacobin strength in Westmio sttr. At the General Election of 1790 TooKE, pr.slled 1619 votes. In 1796 that Gentleman advanc• ed his poll to 2819, at ‘o4lt number, however, it would be too to rate the mere Jacobinical poll ; for many Whigs, many of high rank in that party, divided their votes for TooKg, after his trial for high treason. In 1502, when GRAHAM gave up the contest, he had polled 1691 votes. — The three first days of Mr. TooKE's and Mr. RAFI AM'S pull tally very much with the three fit at days of Sir FRANCIS in the late Election. In 1796 the three first days of 'room. gave 559 vo!es. Tice three first days of GRAHAM in 1802 gave 343 votes. The three first days of Sir FRANCIS in ;lune last gave 484. The reader is left to judge for himself as to the cause of the rise of Sir FRANCIS ;upon the fourth, and each succeeding, day of the late contention. Yet, though no publication ever excited more derision than Mr. 131tooKs's adoertisement, which stated the expense of Sir F. BURDETT'S election at about 12001,, still; may an actual expenditure of twenty, nay, thirty, forty tnnes that sum, be rcrfect ly compatible with probity in Mr. BactoKs and the General Committee. It was boasted as a ►,i t ;h merit in Sit F. BURDETT, that his two Mid contests cost him 130,0001. No fact is batter known than the declaration of Mr. Gue- GORY, of Chelsea, who, during the most expensive of the two contests, sat in the very house of Sir F. B. in Piceudilill, as Chairman of the General Coro t►tittee, viz. "fhat he never knew of the illicit experCiture of a single shilling.' It was not till af►er certain juridical proceedings, caused by the' falling out' of some honest Gentlemen, that the public, and Nlr. GauGottv, as a part of that came by' the real truth of those trans actions. Towards a solution of Sir F. BURDETT'S success ttpon and front the fourth day of the late poll, an impeachment of the advertisement froth his Ge neral Committee is not a necessary ingredient.— Wholy gratuitous, therefore, was Mr. Ilos }louses recent attestaticm to the correctness of the accounts of the General Committee.—There is no great hazard in predicting, that before Cundlentass, HonnousE will be better instructed in the • election axiom—that it is not in the records of a General Committee, that the acts which vacate an „election are ever to be !oohed for. Even in the purest contests, properly conducted, a General Committee is ►►ot , the repository ()fits mysteries. Though bought in the piece at- Spitalfields, the ribbons alone of a former Westminster contest cost one of the parties 5000/.—its General Committee being, at the same time, no more cog .llizant of the expenditure, still less of the source of it, than the public at large. Had no epic nsa chinety come in aid of the spotless poll of Sir• , FRANCIS in the late contest—had no God inter posed upon the fourth day, but God BROOKS, and God l'iacioxs's God-like Committee, Mr. HOZ- RousF, would not now be vouching the purity of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S return. The following Election postulatuni is here. set • d o n, literally and without the least qualification, to wit—that a re:11 Westminster contest, the effi cient concerns of which are transacted in a Ge -inerid Committee, must infallibly be lost. In the year 1750, the retreat of Lord LINCOLN was so (pick, and the' success of Mr. Fox so • that hut few election lessons were derived from that contest by Mr.' Fox's friends. Ac cordingly, the Foxites, generally, came to the conflict 01 1784 without any of that dis cipline for which they were afterwards so celebrated, In the commencement of that mighty struggle, the General Committee at the Shakspeare was the efficient headquarters: and whilst it remained so - , all went awry. A General Committee, accessible by its nature to all comers, is rot a scene for business. In vain was a Press, in v,in a private Committee appointed at the. Shakspeare. The Sanctum Sanctorum soot, became a Babel. B u t the obviously wiong course sug gested by "degrees the right. The loss of Mr. Fox's poll, day after day, keeping exact pace with the contineance of head-quarters at the Gene ral Committee, brought his election into danger of dving the death of Merculin—' being ficiatched to dealt) by Sir CECIL WRAY. A Ibmail knot, not exceeding five individuals, in a small room, entirely apart from the bustle or Co vent-garden, restored the honours of the field.— It was not, however, till the 23d day of the con test that they tinned the corner by a transporting majority, as indeed it was, of 21, over Govern ment, in the person of Sir Cucte. Out of a little ✓oom in Bow-street (ludicrously baptised by one of the Quintuple, the Egerian grot) issued the acts which carried the Election. Into the Egerian grot' not Mr. Fox himself (who, to quote old Nuci'ttv's words at the St. Martin's .scrutiny, nevi r made his appearance without bringing sense and manners with hitn,') not even Mr. Fox was uniformly a welcome visitant. Reasonably not so ; for, if all the parties were writing, each upon a different subject, even Mr. Fox could not be other titan an interruption. Though the contest of 84, however, commenced in chaos, it finished in sytntnefry ; and the ad mirable system with which it closed its trimo ph Alit toils, was carried to still higher perfection upon Lord J(IIIN TOWNSEND'S election in 88 — compared with which two contests, namely with those of 84 and 88, all other Westmiuster Elec tions are mere child's play. Never.was tie va lue of system proved more strikingly titan in these two struggles. In .1784, when the system was defective, the result of a six weeks' poll was only a majority for Mr. Fox of 235 votes—in 1788, when the systent was perfect, an election of only fifteen days seated Lord Junta Tow NSEND with a majority of 823 ! As the polliet law now stands, Mr: Fox had lost his election ; for on the 15th , day Sir C. WRAY bad a majority of 160 votes. in a Westminster contest, more than in any ether, is the sway of the petty passions fatal The places will better conduce to success titan the presence of men surcharged with pride, envy, and sett-conceit: The nation most jealous of its li berty in biStorical annals reposed absolute autbo.' rity in one person, wben public safety required the temporary suspension. Midnight was chosen for the time of conferring it, but still it was con ferred. For victory "in a Westminster contest sufficient power must be seated somewhere; but to place such power in a larger instead of a smaller body would be inverting the first princi ples of business. Committees, whether general or local, are essentially active. If otherwise, they would be a nuisance, not a benefit. In all con cerns, the laborious must be guided by tie intel lectual : ' For they who think must govern those who toil.' A General Committee sitting constantly .at Co vent-garden during the poll—Parish Committees sitting as constantly in their several districts, all these are indispensible to success ; there would be no doing without them; bat they are not scenes for deliberation in the hour of battle: If there be nothing to direct the storm '—if there be nothing to 'ride in the whirlwind ' whilst the mass walks in it, all will be disjointed and desul tory ; and final failure is inevitable. What's dove's done.' Past errors should poly be referred to for future profit ; but no excuse can be urged if experience should he found fruitless. A proper management of a Westmin ster contest would simplify•the complicated, har monize the discordant, and reduce clashing ele 'news to unity. It would not lighten one mem b r of its machne to overload another; nor accu mulate duties inconsistent and impossible. Its interchange of communication, from the heart to the extremities, would be as regular es the blood's movement ; it would apply all available talents according to their bent ; and neglect no thing even to the chilling of a ballad singer. Its arms of warfare must in some degree depend upon its adversary. Its chief weapon, however, will be the understanding ; but its proportion as the management is adequate to its charge, -no ex ample of the enemy will provoke it into ribal dry—into ribaldry, which ever disgusts good (nen, gratifies those only whom it is vice to please, and never makes a vote. Without hinting one word against Mr. Hon- Hausa, still less against the houourable, amiable, and loyal family, of which he is a beloved part, this position is utideniable—that his election for Westminster, under all The circumstances of the present juncture, would be, not a step merely, but a stride too:ards revolotion. Before ‘Vt-st minster Mr. floauott.,e stands as the nominee and disciple of Sir FRANCIS 13ORDETT ; and Sir FRANC'S BURDETT is the Apostle, or rather the God of Universal 'Suffrage and of Annual Parlia ments. Yet is there tto disadvantage of cause or of candidate to excise oespair of Westminster, with a good election system ; nor any superiority Of oth that can prevail lapinv a bud one. What ever may be the case in other places, in Westilzin ster the best system is sure to carry the day. Dec. 16, 1818. AN ELECTOR. ** As we wish to support the honour of West minster against the open and the undermining hostility of FACTION, we have copied the fore going article from The Morning Post of yesterday. It is evidently written by one who is animated by sound principles,and who fully understands the sub ject to which his attention has been directed.—We had not room for it yesterday, or we should not have suffered " the coldness of delay to hang" upon a production so well recommended by spirit, knowledge, and an obvious regard for the honour of Westminster. CHARGE OF CHILD-DROPPING, AGAINST A YCL:NG LADY. About eight o'clock on last Tnesday.evening, a fine male child, appgently not a week old, was found in an old baikei, having on a shirt, and wrapped up in a piece of blanket, laying at the door of Mrs. Mary James, Tash-street, Grty's Inn-lane. The poor child was nearly perished from the cold ; it was taken in doors, where every kind attention was paid to it ; and after it was warmed and fed, it was carried to the work house of the upper liberty of the parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, in Little Gray's-Inn-line. The following discovery has been made, which has providentially led to the detection of its un natural mother, who proves to he a young Lady, residing not far from the neighbourhood, and who has hitherto borne a most exemplary good character. Yesterday the Parish Officers, who have taken up the case, a:tended at the po line-Offire, Hatton-Garden, where a private exa mination of all the witnesses took place, which occupied above two hours, front whence it ap pears, that the young Lady (whose name, for ob vious reasons, we are not as yet at liberty to mention), was delivered of the child in question on last Saturday afternoon, and was shortly after taken by the midwife to put to nurse to a poor woman residing in Cletkenwell, where it re mained until Tuesday afternoon, when the mid wife, who lives in Kirby -street, went to the nurse for the child, telling her the Lady wished to see it, befoe she sent it into the country to nurse ; she satisfied the nurse for lier trouble, carried away the child, and the same evening it was found as above described.' The nurse hear ing of the circumstance, suspected it was the same child that was taken from her on Tuesday afternoon, and went to the workhouse to satisfy her suspicions, when she instantly identified the child to be the same she had to nurse ; she knew it b!,: a particular mark, and having on the same shirt, but all the rest of the baby clothes were changed for worse. She then gave the information that led to the present . examination. Two other women, who saw the child at nurse, proved the same. Mis. the midwife, was sent for and closely examined, when, to exone rate herself from the charge-, she was compelled to disclose the unfortunate young Lady's name who is the real mother of thechild,and whose family are of the greatest respectability. The entire evi dence was taken down, after which a warrant was granted to take her into custody. There are many reports afloat respecting the father of the child, which we do not think ourselves warranted in ttatiog to the public, PO ET It Y. PROLOGUE TO A WORD FOR THE LADIES. WRITTEN BY N. TALFORD, ESQ.. In pause of Tragic sadness, may a word For old neglected Comedy he heard ? For her who first, when Poesy was young, To freshest life in sweet luxuriance sprung; Drew forms grotesque in gay fantastic dance, That half partook the gorgeous times' romance; Threw 'mid the scenes of taught er,wisdom's hints, And shed o'er folly, fancy's rainbow tints; Her who, when fashion's glassy stream began,— That mirror of the changeful ways of man, — Stood near the polished flood, so gently fair, And stole each beam and cloud reflected there; Caught the gay bubbles of the crystal river, To fix in variegated charms for ever. Oh ! let her fail not!—Till Improvement's sway Shall polish all the glorious soul hway; Till mightiest strengths and weaknesses of man Change by some patent philosophic plan ; Till passions vary by mechanic aids, And every gleam of wit in gas-light fades Still shall she flourish—still delight to stoop, To shed warm sunshine o'er life's lowest group; Trace out new links the general soul to bind, And make the world more happy and more kind. Oh ! if your souls in childhood bounded high, At merriest strains of ancient Comedy, Joyed to drink in rich Humour's ceaseless draught, And felt the heart grow gentler while ii qUriffed, Assist our Author now, who dares employ The strain that wakens long-neglected joy; Gilds his bright scenes with old Good-nature's ray, And scud all hearts in kindred joy away. EPILOGUE, SPOKEN IN THE CHARACTERS OF LORD OGLIIBY AND CANTON. Ld. Ogl, Fair Ladies, by your leave—the gay old beau Yo , ,r mothers cherished fifty years ago, Your magic smiles, not less by biro adored, To life and favour bare again restored. But what an age is yours !where'er I turn, Beings, whose very names I've yet to learn, Force me, so novel is my situation, To send old Canton out for information. Canton ! [Canton enters.) Canton. Mi Lor! Ld. Ogl. Peace, Sir—no racket! Who's that old Lady in the riding jacket, Looking at me with supercilious grin, Twiddling her lochs, and propping up her chin, In Turkish petticoats, all spick and span ? Canton. 'Oh! dat old Lady is young Gentleman. Ld.Ogl. You blind old puppy—Gentleman ! absurd! Why, you've forgot the meaning - of the word. 'Put on you glasses—look again, and see, Is that strange animal a bi►t like me? Are my legs muffled up, as if grown bandy? Canton. Mi Lor, dat Gentleman is called - de Dandy. You make de Lady weep -06,1. Weep, Canton, why ? Canton. Your Lordship Gentleman is quite go by. Ld. 00. Gone by, indeed! my style's then voted scurvy— Scouted —men, manners, alt turned topsy turvy. If that same sample represents the whole, Ladies, I pity you with all my soul! Your swain deposes you, usurps your ways, Yon r rights,yoiir rouge, your station, and your stays'. Say not his gallantry is on the shelf, Of c curse, 'tis lavished all npori himself; Let Fashion still herlevolnlions make, And non' II assist him to his wine and cake-- Ask the coy creature of Ins friends in marriage, Curtsy respect, and hand Lim to his carriage. Canton. Ha! ha! ha! ha' La. Yon brute, be quiet ! D'ye think the—Gentlemen can bear this riot ? Laughing at wit, besides, is vulgar grow•n— Canton. De Dandy never laugh, but at his own. 14. Ogl. Then iet him troop, if Lyre his smiles he grudges, To France, and joint hat modern h rood—theFu DOES. Canton. To change, a Paris, on de Opera bench, His la la Anglois into I a la French. 04;1. Send the ivhole drove of Dandies there, for me. Canton. Ah ! my for, stock de grand menagerie. 0g(. You needn't stay — Canton. Ali-I Canton say no more— Von Ladies smile—alat smile is for _lli I or. Ld. Ogl. Fair Ladies, one word more—l had forgot, I have a suit to you—reject it wot. Let me restore your power, and what remains, To-night exert among your loyal swains; Drown qualmish murmurs in yorir own good cause, And CEOV.II our Bard, fvr my salie, with applause. LAW IN FELLIGENCE. VICE-CIIANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. 17. PIRACY OF A MUSICAL WORK. BURCHILL V. LONGMAN AND OTHERS. Mr. frEmpL a 'moved for an Injunction to pre vent the defendants from selling or putting away any copies of a musical work, composed by a ce lebrated Austrian, and dedicaed to one of the Austrian Archdukes. The work in quevion was assigned to the plaintiff on his paying 130 gold ducats to the composer, and plaintiff thereby thought himself solely entitled to the profits if the work. In September last, he heard to his, astonishment that the defendants were publish ing the very same work, and accordingly his :So licitor wrote to them on the subject. He applied to the Court for protection, and therefore hoped the Injunction would he granted. The VICE-CHANCeLLOK declined granting the Injunction till he was satisfied by an affidavit that the work had not been originally published as common property at Vienna ; tor if that were the case he knew nothing.to 'prevent the defend ants, or any other persons, from selling and pub lishing it. if the affidavit stated that it was not so published he would grant the Injunction ; in the meantime he would allow it to stand over. till the next Seal. COURT OF KING'S P.F.NCII, Mc. 17. This morning Mr. Justice BEST sat for the first tirneio his judicial character since his appointment, for the Chief Justice. NELSON V. ALDRIDGB. This was an action for money had and received by the defendant to the plaintiff's use. It appeared in evidence, that the plaintiff was owner of certain stage coaches upon the Es3ex road, and being about to retire from business, sent 20 coach-horses, some coaches, and a quan tity of harness, to be sold by FiAtction by the de fendant, a person of some eminence in that parti cular buiiness. The horses were sold oa the 6th of May last, according to the printed conditions ° f Itt sale then posted up in the auction-yard of the de ' fendant, which, amongst other preliminarie s l stated that the purch a s er o f eac h l ot must Oer si ss. in the pound on its value at the time of Sale; the lots to be taken a w a y a t th e p u r c b a ser'i _ pence within one day of the sale, but no tot to:be delivered until the whole of the purchase i nio.eel was paid. It appeared t h a t th e whole - amouni 61 " been settled with the pl a i n ti ff exce pt the p'rice c°f one horse, which bad been purchased at The enc‘ tiou by a jobber, named Gallen, for :5.91- 1 7 8 -": The defendant permitted the latter to take a 0 1 ,87 the horse without paying the purchase money, 11 contravention of his own condi t i ons o f sale; an t i 1 this action was b roug ht to. recover t h e value7o", that horse. The defence set up was, that Mr. Gullen, be* ing an old customer of the defendant, the: At' ter (lid not hesitate to let him takeaway tl( horse, without paying down the money, arld.ge t the horse upon trial h a d b een f o und to literalli worth nothing, althou g h it h a d'b ee n the printed band-bills published by the plabiO as being in high condition, and used to be driven as a leader. The - Jury, however, tinder the di' rections of the Learned Judge, who thought the defendant bound by his own conditions of sale° found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damaged' 571. 19s. The remainder of the cases tried in the cones e ' of the day were of no general interest, beiti6 principally common actions for goods sold AO &livered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ,CHARGE OF MURDER. Bow-STucirf.- . ---Yesterday Henry alias Tali We underwent an e x am i nat i on , on a' charge being concerned with a number of smugglers il l the murder of six of the Revenue Office° belonging to the Fox Revenue cutter, of DO 4 between two and thre e y ear s since - . Gilliam at,d Brock, two of the smugglers concerned in 0)4 , murders of the Reven ue . Off icers b e l ong i ng to the Fox Revenue cutter, were tried at the Admirri Y , Sessions in the Old Bailey, and during their tri o " the prisoner was frequently alluded to as Tncl Wells. He had th en a b scon d e d f rom hi s rest; dente at Deal, and no doubt was then entertaiuo' but that he was then out of England. He 184 returned to Deal, and was taken into cu stody' and brought to Londo n . H e y ester d ay deui° the charge. Mr. MAYHEW, the Solicitor to the Excise, ti t ; tended; and, as the pris o n e r h a d no l e gal advis e present; humanely advised him n o t to males s, defence then, but to res erve i t t ill- t h e t i me of • trial. A bill.of indictment was found against the soner at the time Br uc k an d P e lh atu. we re °- dieted. Mr. MAYHEW informed the prisoner, that trial would take place on the 11 th of Janoori next, when the, Admiralty Sessions would 4 ; 6W mence. 1 I\lll7 ' HE lit Pridaz 'to receive 41116 7'en and t, 't/te seecra 14 4 e spc Col6ny, O „ fficet at ti 'aY also I ivo Ten re2uire .!0.3' wilt re ?it4ertell iii the M.,arti 0 ouory ,caller!. f},~•. ac•h !' 'l4e Part), 44 40141,d , ~I3C Hj 44¢t oia :recefre 44e n -7144?,,tr, /71 ? 7, e Co Cretar maste,• at N o „ Kci 41,411,zint t o deliver, Zitirsday, hakes the 4144 wer tvl Each 7 44,1 A / Ivo res./ AT a in g I . ll is Day a , 11‘;(32 • " . e Ifas-st . )}1 ; 0 1) 0 .sed • That Loa m 0: Ih e Vhc.an, B eath of tzoisden. .!b .-roposed i'r oPuse t l a. That, Sts which y ietts of an ;deuce, the t he VllO to ittsolved Nblic Pap Pr -Posed b ik:l,:tlit T eoa itel th er e es, To t h, LADI ES i tNC( I h of re h a ve tla s Pectabl e a mp earnes !otere sts al ...111 silent] 141 gUisli e d ex; IC: and I t. tt re , , itli ar4 j RESURRECTION-MEN. UNTON-HALL.-Richard Tomlinson, John 1119 Inas, William Dcwis, and Juseph,,Bedell, the. pe r' sons who on Wednesday morning were Oil s !tended by Wortley with the dead body of a to o in their posiessiou, were yesterday broug4t,. o this office to undergo another examination. consequence of f u rth er ev id ence aga i nst thew h$C. ing been procured. , Wortley stated, that on Wednesday evening ascertained that a grave had been opened 56 plundered in Plhmsted Church-yard, in Kent* : , Mrs. Mary Ann Pitnithry informed the Mag i : , trate, that on Saturd a y Afternoon her deceased I ° 4 '; band was interred in Plumsted Church-yard. fl a j ing been info rme d th at a grave h a d' b een °pellet: she went to the burial ground, and there obse r ie „. ed the coffin in which her husband had been, " v . posited open and em p t y. Sh e h a d s „h,equen l been to the bone-house to which the officer ha y taken the body found in the coach, and inryn el7 ately recognised it a s th e cor p se o f h e r deceased husband, it ) The Minister of Plumsted attended to grop e do f burial of Mr. Pimbury. The parish. officerstert Plumsted were al s o i n a tt en d ance) and 5" la their determination to prosecute the prisoners the extent of the law. Kee' The disinterment having taken place in ve the !tn....niers were committed to Dartford ( i_ . „` l • in order to t a k e th e i r tr i a l s at t h e Maidsto" ssi z es . BIRTH. Yesterday evening, in Laurence Pountney-lane, H. Ripley,..Esq. of a daughter the WV of NIARRIED. picso t o i, On the trith inst., at Old Windsor Ch.nrch, ,„0 Esq., of the Royal Regiment of Hor,t Guards, only htjq J. K. Picard, Esq., of Hull, to Miss Horn fray, eldest datig t he of Samuel Hotufray, Esq., M. P. of Coworth-house' , county of Berks, and niece to Sir Charles Morgan, Bar t ' of Tredegar, in the county of Monmouth. • DIED. On Monday last, the 14th inst , a vaged CI, Mrs. ergl i . , 6 o : wife of Mr. Delmer, of the Fornirs Inn Coffe -h P" Holborn. On the 28th ult., Mr. William Alexander, of D ublia° aged 26. n 4.15. PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEAI,- BI RTIIS. A OM At Marionrille, Scotland, on the 9th inst. M rs. Du 4 ~ of a sun. .AA Munnond House, on the 3d inst. M. Gordutlf Cairnbulg, Scotland, of a son. MARRIF.D. 011 1 At her father's house, Nicolson's-square, Editiburg%oo: the 11 th inst. Mr. John Mann, to Miss Elizabe th , sc, daughter of Dr..L.lin Bortliwiek Gilchrist. bear Lee d4 ' Tuesday se'nnight, Mr.Waddington, o f Wither, - 0 6 1 to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. George Abbott, of.Lv, el l t o. Same day, at Ripon, York,hire , Captain Swinburtie. o _, t h, First Gr.,Hadier . Guards, to Miss Coates, th ird daughter to late Rev. A. Coates, Vicar of Goldsbrough• • DIED. vglij tsol l/ At Perth, Scotland, on the 22d ult. Mr. T homas Writer there. At Perth, on the 4th inst. Mr. David Fogg°• the Sortil Lately, at her `aster ' s, Mrs. Casey's, hous e on Mall, Cork, t Nliss Maria Bourk_e_.__________.--- - '' Gle at --- V 290 A LONDON: Printed by J. IL cititsTAms, of — ° •b f if. - ' Ormond-street. Queen-square; and published , rO , so ' SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at _ c oo. , . Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Adveitiscntents, Letters, &c, 4sust-raid) must be addressed. . "